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Post by bison137 on Apr 26, 2021 10:28:50 GMT -5
Jacob Radaker leaves Navy for Chattanooga was he on Navy's roster? Not the varsity. Maybe the JV. Navy rostered 24 players on their varsity. He was not one of them. Coming out of HS, he had no D1 offers. I am assuming he is going to Chattanooga as a walk-on.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 23, 2021 15:11:49 GMT -5
Jordan Sechan leaves Bucknell for the College of Charleston He was a walk-on at Bucknell. Leaves as a graduate transfer.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 21, 2021 14:24:23 GMT -5
Just realized how much turnover in head jobs there has been in the last few years. Of the 10 jobs in the league, 6 have changed in the last 2 years alone (2 still open) and 8 in the last 3. Stunning! AU – Gebba 2013 Army – Traversi – 2021 BU – open Bucknell – Woodruff – 2019 Colgate – Adeduntan – 2021 Holy Cross – Magarity – 2020 Lafayette - Damon-Olson – 2019 Lehigh - Sue Troyan – 1995 Loyola – open Navy – Taylor - 2020 Also interesting that of the eight who left in the last two years, only two left for a higher-level job.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 20, 2021 1:43:22 GMT -5
If you are going to end up playing in Europe, it has to help getting your first contract to be drafted as opposed to undrafted. With Kucowski receiving an engineering degree from a good program, there is a good chance she will receive job offers in that field that exceed what she can make in Europe playing basketball. Still she may opt to play basketball there for the experience and because it's more fun.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 19, 2021 19:23:48 GMT -5
I'm glad to see PL players getting drafted. Exciting to see her play with Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart! Way to go! If you want to see her play with them, the best chance would be to see an early preseason game. Statistically the chance of a player taken in the second half of the third round to ever play in a regular season game is perhaps 20%. Still a great accomplishment for her. I think Lafayette did not make very good use of her considerable talent.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 19, 2021 18:34:50 GMT -5
Jim Ferry, fired by Penn State, hired by UMBC Good coach Good coach, although his D1 record is well below .500. He wasn't fired by PSU, as he was just the interim coach after Pat Chambers was fired. PSU just had six top players enter the transfer portal, after a new coach was hired. They were big supporters of Chambers, and likely would have preferred Ferry. Had Chambers stayed, PSU had a good chance of landing an NCAA berth next year.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 12, 2021 9:44:09 GMT -5
That is certainly your choice. I hope you have been vaccinated and that your choice does not impact others. After all the mask is not there for your protection, it is intended to protect others from being infected by you. Vaccination, as I understand from the CDC, does not stop you from being a _______________________________ That said, the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are about 95 percent effective, after the second shot. That means, even though one is vaccinated, there is still a five percent chance you could become symptomatically infected, but with almost no risk of serious infection. ____ No. What it really means is that there is a 95% reduction in the infection rate. So if a person prior to the vaccine had a 10% chance of being infected, their chance post vaccination would be 0.5%. In the Moderna and Pfizer trials, a much lower percentage than that actually got Covid after being fully vaccinated.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 9, 2021 7:21:45 GMT -5
The pL is never getting an at-large bid in any sport regardless the circumstances. Really? Lacrosse? Also soccer.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 8, 2021 22:18:09 GMT -5
That article puts things in perspective. Thanks Old School. If any coach deserved a Covid Mulligan season it would seem Cleary deserved it. He steered the program to it's second winning season in 33 years in his fourth campaign, right on schedule and then lost four starters before the first game and had to cancel the season after nine games due to injuries. I would guess he will receive the majority of his contract. Fortunately for Coach Cleary he is male with experience coaching WBB so he has the universe of both WBB and MBB programs to apply for jobs in. Somewhat surprising with all the progress in gender equity in society and especially in academia, women coaches, for most intents and purposes only have the universe of WBB to apply for jobs in. I suspect this imbalance may be rectified over time not by large numbers of women integrating MBB, but with less men coaching WBB. But that's just a guess. 1. The Colgate AD may have factored in that his winning season last year was primarily due to all of his predecessor’s recruits. But they all graduated last season and the current talent level is not as high. 2. It is likely that his contract ran out with this season. I think it is at least remotely possible that Colgate may have offered to give him a one-year extension to make up for this Covid year but that he declined. 3. A college WBB is not going to switch over to being a MBB coach, regardless of the gender of the coach. Clary will likely end up as a D2 or D3 coach. He was successful at Bloomsburg prior to this job. 4. Cleary was hired by former AD Vicky Chun. Colgate’s new A.D. is a product of two P5 programs. It wouldn’t surprise me if she hires a P5 assistant coach to take over the Colgate job.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 6, 2021 12:11:45 GMT -5
If there are only two teams left in the North pod and they have already played each other and the South is decided, no reason to delay the title game if both teams are able to play this weekend. the contract with CBS Sports likely has a date and time for the game. CBS may not want to change it if they are already committed to other events.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 6, 2021 7:41:07 GMT -5
This is almost unreal. Of course the minimum number of games is not exactly a firm number as Ohio State's situation showed earlier this academic year. FYI, FBS football is not run by the NCAA like FCS is.... Also the Ohio State situation did not involve the NCAA or the FBS or the CFP. It was simply a 2020 Big 10 rule that required a team to play six games to compete in the Big 10 title game. Had they not played in the championship, Ohio State would still have been eligible for the FBS playoffs – but it is unlikely they would have received a bid.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 5, 2021 22:38:16 GMT -5
In order to meet the FCS minimum 4 game playoff qualification, we need to play someone this week. Probably why there is talk about possibly playing Bucknell this weekend. Maybe the league is aware of our predicament and wants to avoid the PL Champ being disqualified from the playoffs. I think that game would be at HC since Bucknell is scheduled to travel this week (@ Fordham) Fwiw, Bucknell does not travel this weekend. They are scheduled to host Fordham in Lewisburg. One option might be to set back the Lehigh-Lafayette game a week and have HC play Lafayette. I doubt the league or CBS Sports wants to see Bucknell meeting HC one week prior to the same two teams playing in the championship game.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 5, 2021 8:59:13 GMT -5
They were given a choice of where to inbound ? In some cases they do. In the women’s game , a team has a choice as to where to inbound if they call a timeout in backcourt immediately after they gain possession. In that case a team can inbound at the normal spot or else at the 28 foot mark in their offensive end, which is the designated spot if a team opts to advance the ball. however, in this case the ball was not in back court when the timeout was called following the Stanford shot clock violation, so that rule does not apply. Under NCAA rules, the inbound spot after that sort of shot clock violation is also at the 28 foot spot. So they inbounded it at that spot, not by their choice, but simply because that’s the way the rules work.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 4, 2021 20:01:03 GMT -5
In looking at the various tiebreaker scenarios, I'm pretty sure that my original post is incorrect. Fordham lost to HC by 10 points and beat Colgate by more than 20 points -- so Fordham sits at +10, the same as Holy Cross. Therefore, HC would have to beat Colgate to get into the championship game. If Colgate wins, Fordham's +10 would carry the day. Again, if someone can show me how this might be wrong, I'd be happy to know. (But let's beat Colgate and forget about all these scenarios.) Only the Patriot League would do this as a tie breaker. HC beats Fordham and yet Fordham gets to go the championship with the same record if HC loses. Give me a break. HC should destroy Colgate anyway. You’re forgetting that Colgate would also be in the tie for first. So Colgate could use the same logic and say that they should be in the championship game because they beat holy cross. It’s circular.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 2, 2021 21:48:59 GMT -5
MT was in fact a finalist for the HC job last year along with several other local D1 jobs. The jump from D2/D3 to anything higher than a LM or MM D1 rarely happens in WBB and IMO this is a logical fit for her. The biggest challenge for her - as it is at most schools - will be recruiting relative to what her admins expectations are. Army has always been able to get good athletes but getting real players to go the service academy route will be the challenge. Does Army/Navy use prep schools for women's bball like men's sports? I.e. a recruit is close but doesn't meet minimum SAT's for appointment is directed [by blue & gold alumni in Navy's case] to a prep school to plus him up with the understanding that he would get the appointment with the next class. Many of the basketball and football players who go to NAPS and MAPS have already met the academic requirements, but are sent there purely to develop athletically, i.e. a redshirt year.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 30, 2021 23:45:05 GMT -5
Magarity is going to have the most PL coaching seniority pretty soon. At the rate it's going, she might get into 2nd place. But 1st place is out of reach until Sue Troyan decides to retire at Lehigh. She has been head coach for 26 seasons and has absolute job security - made doubly secure by her husband being their very successful softball coach. And she is in her early 50's, so she may be there for a long time in the future.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 30, 2021 23:38:58 GMT -5
He could have survived one bad year - but his record over the previous four seasons was 35-87. So that makes it 35-100 over less than five seasons. And they were 12-48 in their first two years in the PL so it's not a new problem.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 30, 2021 19:18:47 GMT -5
I don't think BU has any room in the inn for next year as things stand - have 14 on the roster, graduating 3, signed 4, so potentially all scholarships taken. Granted, with a new coach coming in, we may see others leaving, but we will see. Scholarship limited is expanded for next year. However Boston U may not want to go higher. As you know, many schools, including PL schools, don't use 15. Bucknell, for example, is capped at 13 - and no 5th year players allowed.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 30, 2021 13:48:11 GMT -5
And can Katie Benzan play for MD again? Ironic that they got bounced by Texas, which was where she was headed until there was a coaching change. Yes, Benzan could play another college season if she and the school want that.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 30, 2021 8:23:18 GMT -5
Why is Langel still at Colgate ? he really hasn't seen an opportunity that suits him ? he could earn upwards of a $million/yr I think He has been a finalist for a few jobs, including one of the final two at St. Joes last year., where they foolishly opted for Billy Lange ahead of him. I think a big part is misunderstanding of his record at Colgate, i.e. that it is one of the toughest places to win of any D1 spot and that he inherited a really bad team. Also hiring a coach from Colgate probably would not make most fan bases happy. Lange, even though a worse coach than Langel, had the cachet of having been a coach at Villanova and for the 76ers (one of 14 coaches).
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Post by bison137 on Mar 29, 2021 19:11:31 GMT -5
Nelly Cummings of Colgate has entered the portal. Verbal Commits lists him as a redshirt Junior so he may be graduating in a few months. The Transfer Portal hit 1,000 players an hour ago. Not sure how many are walk-ons or grad transfers. I know the latter are in there and assume the former are based on the fact our walk-on transfers were listed last year in the portal. Yes, there are definitely a number of walk-ons. Any player can put his name into the portal - and VC simply lists every player who does so. There are two players listed who were on the Navy JV in 2020 or 2021.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 29, 2021 19:03:13 GMT -5
Nelly Cummings of Colgate has entered the portal. Verbal Commits lists him as a redshirt Junior so he may be graduating in a few months. Yes, he will be graduating. With no real grad programs, he isn't a fit at Colgate. Not sure if they are as rigid about 5th year athletes as Bucknell, but other than in football it is rare.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 28, 2021 12:36:38 GMT -5
Bucknell run defense wasn't quite as good as the stats imply, due to the archaic NCAA system of counting QB sacks as rushing attempts and negative rushing yardage. Once you adjust for that, LC had 17 rushing attempts for 31 yards.
I was somewhat surprised by the DL since their best lineman, Grayson Cherubino, who has started since his freshman year, was out with an injury. His replacement at DE was freshman Mike Bright Jr., whose Dad longtime hoop fans may remember. He scored almost 1700 points in the early '90's for Bucknell on the basketball court, was a PL POY, and is still near the top of the all-time steals leaders.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 26, 2021 9:10:08 GMT -5
BTW, Katy Steding returned to her alma mater as an assistant, unless she recently stepped down. Yes, Steding has been an assistant at Stanford for the past nine months. Prior to that, she was an assistant at San Francisco for 2+ years after being fired by Boston U.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 25, 2021 22:29:38 GMT -5
I think the chance of Maciariello taking the Fordham job is zero. It's a career killer and he is a hot commodity, having won the MAAC regular season title two years in a row. Also has much better facilities there. He is in the middle of his contract term and negotiating for a raise at the moment. I think he interviewed for the job to put pressure on Siena's administration to give him a new, more lucrative contract. If he needs to leave, he will have better opportunities in the future. Maciariello just got a contract extension out to 2026 with Siena. Presumably more money as well.
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